Greenland caught US, Denmark and freedom in election

Greenlanders are visiting the election on Tuesday in a decisive parliamentary election of a perennial debate on independence from overseer Denmark on Tuesday – and the island “or others in a kind or others by the ambitions of US President Donald Trump.

Most of the six main political parties in the Arctic island support independence, and the most recent voter in January suggested that freedom-supporter Inuit Atkatigit Party could maintain power in 31-Seats Parliament, Intacarut, is likely. In second place by its predecessor coalition partner, Simut.

Both sides say they want to make a referendum on political and economic freedom from Denmark, although neither a clear time limit is set.

Denmark oversees Greenland’s defense and foreign policy but leaves domestic matters for the government of Greenland. According to data from the International Trade Administration, the Copenhagen Island offers an annual block grant of about $ 511 million, which is responsible for about 20%of Greenland’s GDP and more than half of the public budget.

Copenhagen has repeatedly stressed that Greenland is “not for sale” and that it will remain a part of its state, yet it is careful with the pace behind independence and has calmed down before the election, it is careful to decide how the islanders should vote.

There is no doubt that an alarm has arisen in Denmark in the abundance of Trump’s designs and rare earth minerals on the island. Danish Prime Minister Metet Fredericseen described the idea as “absurd” when Trump first looted it in 2019.

The feeling was repeated by Greenland after Trump’s comments in December, when the American leader stated that Greenland’s “ownership” was essential for America’s economic and national security. Greenland Prime Minister Mute Eddie replied that “we are not for sale and we will not be for sale” and that “Greenland belongs to the people of Greenland.”

He doubled the situation last week stating that “Kallit Nunat (Greenland in Greenlandic) is ours.”

He said, “We do not want to be American, nor Danes; We are a challit. Americans and their leaders should understand this. We are not for sale and cannot be taken. Our future will be decided by us in Greenland,” he said on Facebook.

Clearly disorganized by the rejection of their advances by Greenland and Denmark, Trump has repeatedly returned to the subject of the US ownership claim. He has denied military action to seize the huge, icy area which is geographically located close to the US compared to Denmark.

Last week, Trump said in his joint address to the Congress that the US would control Greenland “in a way or in another way.” He revived the subject on Sunday, commenting that “we strongly support the people of Greenland’s right to determine our future.”

“We will continue to keep you safe, as we have second world war. We are ready to invest billions of dollars to create new jobs and make you prosper – and if you choose so, we welcome you to be a part of the greatest nation anywhere in the world, the United States,” Trump posted on the truth social media platform.

While freedom from Denmark is crying a rally to contest elections for political parties, they – and most Greenlanders – do not want to be a part of America.

An opinion poll conducted by Pollster Varian for newspaper Burlingke in January found that 85% of Greenlanders did not vote for their country to leave Denmark and become part of America, only 6% said they have supported such a step.

However, a single poll found that 56% of Greenlanders would vote for independence if a referendum was held today, against 28%, and 17% uncertain.

Rasams Jarlov, a conservative legalist in Denmark and president of Defen of DenmarkSThe E Committee on Monday commented that the Nordic nation was not very worried that Greenlanders would embrace the US, which is also the result of Tuesday’s vote.

“Not a single candidate wants to join the United States in Greenland elections. So it will never result in the election. It cannot be placed in that direction,” Jarlov commented on the social media platform X.

“A complete survey a month ago showed that only 6% AF Greenlanders want to join the USA, while 85% reject the idea. Greenland is fully claimed to join the US. They are not completely.”

Jarlov stressed that Greenland had “full rights in Denmark” in Parliament and represented, while he claimed that, “In the USA, there would be a foreign zone without Greenland voting rights or any impact. Puerto Rico will never be formed with 3.2 million people nor will Greenland be with 57,000 people.”

Analysts say that Trump is wrongly going about Greenland’s girlfriend, and instead it should deepen economic and geopolitical relations with the island instead of advancing the high-cost exercise of the “own owner”.

“One thing is clear from abundance: the people of Greenland are very little interest in acquiring by someone,” said in recent analysis in Otto Swanden, Europe, Russia and Eurasia Program, Associate Fellows, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

He said, “Nor is there any hunger for the Danish government to talk about the sale of Greenland in Copenhagen, as it would probably violate international law and the right to self -determination of Greenland,” he said.

Svendson argued that instead of chasing “a potentially fruitless attempt to achieve Greenland against its will”, the US would be given better service by discovering a cost-skilled ways to stay in the course and strengthen relations with the field.

He said, “Refilling its commitment to forums and mechanisms involves that promote government-government relations with Greenland,” as well as its small aid packages as well as its education and tourism to develop Greenland’s mining area.

By deploying the strategy of this engagement, the US “can take significant advantage by passing the huge bill of running the island on Denmark,” he said, with the status quo, so Washington is therefore “allowed to be its cake and eat it.”